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Host of a number of environmental and social innovation themed podcasts.
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Peter Geoghegan
4 days ago
Some good news 🎉 Democracy for Sale now passed 50,000 subscribers To celebrate we’ve launched a fundraising drive Can you help us do even more hard hitting independent investigative journalism? 😊
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/weve-reach...
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We've reached an incredible milestone. Will you help us reach the next one?
50,000 readers! Now we need 350 of you so we can do even more.
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/weve-reached-an-incredible-milestone
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Dr. William Horne
12 days ago
Worth adding here that the FBI waited *years* to declare open war on the Black Panther Party, assassinating & incarcerating its leaders en masse. The thing that tipped the balance wasn't the guns, but the free breakfasts, groceries, & clinics that represented a genuine threat to state power.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
17 days ago
I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation
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Christopher Brown
17 days ago
Haunted walks through springtime landscapes, techno-optimist manifestos, killer robots, and Pixar provocations of animal uprisings, in this week's Field Notes:
fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/the-birds-...
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The birds and the bees and the Bronson bots
No. 192
https://fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/the-birds-and-the-bees-and-the-bronson
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Katie Martin
17 days ago
I'm out of words here
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David Simon
17 days ago
If you go straight back in my feed you'll find an entire string of posts about the deaths of those schoolchildren and military casualties as well. Post after fucking post. Cherry-picking a single entry so you can play artisan grudge-farmer on the internet is a cheap mug's game. So fuck off. Thanks.
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Essential reading, always! Nonpariel.
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Claire Willett
23 days ago
this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying
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Lewis Baston
29 days ago
‘Elect us, we’re the sort of people who struggle to get through the day without accidentally calling for our opponents to be murdered’ is the *best* case for Reform apparently.
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Peter Geoghegan
28 days ago
The entire tone of this segment really is basically Fox News level analysis of Trump from BBC Radio 4
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404 Media
29 days ago
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...
https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/
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actioncookbook
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Christopher Brown
about 1 month ago
Stoked to share this news from yesterday’s Publishers Marketplace, and excited to spend the coming summer tracking robots and monsters across our increasingly dystopian landscape. With luck I will also find some hidden portals into greener futures:
www.publishersmarketplace.com/deals/ss.cgi...
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The BREAK—DOWN
about 1 month ago
NEW: Gareth Fearn lays out the stakes of "electro-capitalism". "The economic basis of this transition is not simply between technologies of energy production. Rather, it is between two different fractions of capital."
www.break-down.org/electro-capi...
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Electro-Capitalism
Ours is the age of transition: from fossil capital to electricity capital. The future that emerges will be determined by the fierce struggles of the present.
https://www.break-down.org/electro-capitalism/
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Christopher Brown
about 1 month ago
Winter's end in the weird woods aided by a canine homunculus, urban heron rookeries behind the old warehouses, dystopian auspices in the airport flyover, and news about a new book, in this week's Field Notes:
fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/skull-season
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Skull season
And some book news (No. 191)
https://fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/skull-season
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Peter Geoghegan
about 1 month ago
Cabinet Office secretary Darren Jones now spent half an hour plus trying to defend government over Labour Together's hiring of a corporate intelligence firm to dig dirt on journalists who reported on the think tank's undeclared funding Democracy for Sale's journalism having real impact 😀
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Quinn Slobodian
about 1 month ago
Thx to Nicholas Brown from ANU for this thoughtful engagement with my book and what it can tell us about Australian politics for
@insidestory.bsky.social
insidestory.org.au/frontlash/
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Frontlash • Inside Story
Friedrich Hayek’s successors used an expanded armoury to fight their war against the state. But what explains their receptive audience?
https://insidestory.org.au/frontlash/
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Tom Nicholls
about 2 months ago
This is massive. A credit to Democracy For Sale for their investigation.
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Benjamin Braun
about 2 months ago
“I graduated with £42,000 of debt and even though I’m paying it off, it’s now £72,000.” It's truly an abomination: On a normal job you keep paying forever. 40 years! “Why would I trust a government that mis-sold me a loan when I was a child?” is a very good question.
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Chad
about 2 months ago
Queen
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Va. Senate honors Joan Mulholland, 81, a '60s Freedom Rider, for her Civil Rights work
Joan Mulholland, 81, of Arlington was a student at Duke University in the 1960s when she became a Freedom Rider in Mississippi.
https://wjla.com/news/local/civil-rights-virginia-senate-honors-joan-mulholland-81-1960s-freedom-rider-john-lewis-arlington-mississippi-parchman-prison-duke-university-tougaloo-college-dc-school-without-walls-francis-stevens-joan-trumpauer-mulholland-foundation-stokley-carmichael
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David Simon
about 2 months ago
Ladies and gentlemen, professional American law enforcement. We are the shithole nation. We are the country that needs regime change. We are the beshitted totalitarian state.
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West Seattle Bike Blob
about 2 months ago
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
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Five Minute Macro
2 months ago
The US has never gone to war with a country where its President owns a golf course.
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Clayton Cubitt
3 months ago
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
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Zoe Gardner
4 months ago
Thank GOD for Andrew Fisher!! FINALLY we get to hear about Spain on
#r4today
The fastest growing economy in Europe & outstripping the US as well & how? Wealth tax, rent controls & a positive integration-focused approach to immigration & asylum!! 🙌👏👏👏
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
4 months ago
My latest:
#COP30
, global climate politics, and what happens next — for
@theguardian.com
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Joanna Pocock
4 months ago
Thank you to NPR @npr for choosing GREYHOUND in its favourite books of 2025. Very grateful to Bridget Bentz for selecting my strange hybrid road trip of a book! “"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses."
#greyhound
#npr
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Fiduciary responsibility, innit.
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London Review of Books
4 months ago
‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social
on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/brett-christophers/assume-the-worst
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Brett Christophers
4 months ago
A new piece for
@thenation.com
on everyone's favourite industry -- private equity; in conversation with one of the many new books on PE, by Megan Greenwell. Here:
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Can We Blame Private Equity for Everything?
Did PE firms make the world worse? Or was it something else?
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/private-equity-megal-greenwell/
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Bookwormlit
4 months ago
Still reading Greyhound by Joanna Pocock. I’m on page 239. Reading slowly…I don’t want to get to the end of the book. I love Greyhound. In 1981, at the age of 17, I rode on a Greyhound bus from Detroit to Los Angeles. It was an experience of a lifetime.
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Joanna Pocock
6 months ago
You heard it here, folks: 'Do not pass GO'. I am so very grateful for the readers who get in touch with their responses to reading GREYHOUND and their reminiscences of the road.... It's a book about the Greyhound bus, while also being about so many other things...
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Micah
6 months ago
this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025 "my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists" "your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs" solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too
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Christopher Webb
6 months ago
ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.
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Micah
6 months ago
they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work see you all there
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Great stuff! But a bird never flew on one wing. Another wonderful interview with Chris for the Sustainability Agenda -with sound accompaniement by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i), gathered in the Lea Valley, Clapton, London, during November 2024.
www.thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/epis...
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Yess!! But a bird never flew on one wing. 🙂 Another wonderful interview with Chris for the Sustainability Agenda with sound by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i), gathered in the Lea Valley, Clapton, London, during November 2024.
www.thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/epis...
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Rachel Salvidge
6 months ago
River abstraction has soared 76% over two decades, threatening rivers, ecosystems and future supply. Water companies fall back on extracting more from already stressed rivers 4/4
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England’s rivers ‘under threat’ as water extraction surges to record levels
Exclusive: Investigation finds 76% rise in water taken from rivers and lakes for industrial or public consumption in two decades
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/20/england-rivers-water-extraction-record-levels
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angela hudson jones
6 months ago
@bookshop.org
is offering free shipping today and tomorrow might i suggest
@joannapocock.bsky.social
exquisite memoir
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Christopher Brown
6 months ago
The paperback edition of A Natural History of Empty Lots is out today from Timber Press
@hachetteus.bsky.social
! Thanks to all the readers who have picked up the hardcover and ebook over the past year (or listened to the audiobook) and spread the word 🙏📖💚
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Rosie Collington
6 months ago
At this point I am just a
@triofrancos.bsky.social
superfan & wanna recommend everything she’s doing but I particularly enjoyed this interview with
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@edwardongwesojr.com
on all things extraction, stranded renewables assets, China, & much more 🫡
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425. The Oxymorons of Green Capitalism (ft. Thea Riofrancos)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4kfbjyFEyAWHGDSNQZiT0G?si=CHIAqYuHRu6qp7ITaDpahQ
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Felicity Hannah
6 months ago
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
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Christopher Brown
6 months ago
On November 5, I'll be teaching an online class for
@writersleaguetexas.bsky.social
on nature writing in the 21st century—as both genre in its own right and essential element for writers in any genre. It should be a lot of fun:
writersleague.org/calendar/wri...
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“Writing the Natural World: A 21st Century Reboot” with Christopher Brown
$59 for Members $119 for Non-Members For any writer in any genre, nature is a presence in the narrative, whether as the central focus or ambient background. Writing the natural world presents a tre…
https://writersleague.org/calendar/writing-the-natural-world-with-christopher-brown/
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Chuck Wendig
6 months ago
Very much liked this book —
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Joanna Pocock
6 months ago
This was a really fun conversation. Thank you
@liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social
🙏🙏🙏
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David Roberts
7 months ago
The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.
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Christopher Brown
7 months ago
When the armadillos are out foraging before sundown, it’s a sign cooler temps have arrived in Texas
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